Rob Dyrdek has reportedly sold his home in the Hollywood Hills for $2.125 million according to a story in the LA Times.
Built in 2005 and designed for entertaining, the home features a two-story entry, an open floor plan, 20-foot ceilings, five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 4,706 square feet of living space. There is a swimming pool, a patio and a lawn.
The only bummer is that he bought the house in 2008 for $2.459. Guess considering “these economic times” that’s not all that bad a deal, really.
Christian Hosoi will post up at Salman Agah’s world famous LA pizza joint Pizzanista the evening of Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 6 to 10 PM and sign copies of his book, Hosoi: My Life as a Skateboarder Junkie Inmate Pastor.
The evening will also feature special guest Ray Barbee, a custom Hosoi-designed pizza, limited edition T-Shirt, pizza boxes & stickers, and Vans giveaways. In fact, the first 10 people to purchase the Hosoi book + pizza receive a Vans gift certificate. Yep. It’s true. Pizzanista! is located at 2019 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, California.
What better way to ring in the holiday season than with The Gonz decorated Christmas tree and Snoop there to wreck the place with his cane. #bahhumbizzle
Not that we’re interested in continuing this whole “Weezy becomes a skateboarder” thing, but Lil Wayne makes some more sense in this interview with MTV. It’s a reminder that you don’t sell all those records by not knowing what’s up. Like the man says, “Skateboarding is its own world and I want to vital in that world.”
Jenkem Mag has a great essay from Lurper on how corporations are taking over skateboarding and what that means to skateboarders and skateboarding. And it includes nuggets like this:
As George Ritzer points out in The McDonaldization of Society, businesses attempt to operate in an extremely efficient fashion. They focus on making everything quantifiable (skatemetrics) rather than focusing on creating subjective quality (“best” video part), they want everything to be predictable (i.e. standardized, the same experience every time), and they want all aspects of a business or activity to be easily controlled, basically the antithesis of what skateboarding is today. As the corporation’s values become more and more apart of skateboarding and influence the ideologies of individual skaters, the greater the potential that our activity will fundamentally change.
Kind of puts skateboarding business in perspective doesn’t it? If you have time, read the rest.
Supreme gets the big, old media treatment with a profile by the New York Times‘ Alex Williams. Sure, it’s full of many of the normal comments regarding boutique skate shops. . .
Huge lines, once endemic to its New York flagship in SoHo, now form at satellite stores in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and other cities. The current issue of British GQ Style, a men’s fashion bible, hails Supreme as “the coolest street wear brand in the world right now.” And the Berlin culture magazine O32c called it “the Holy Grail of high youth street culture.” The Business of Fashion site called it “the Chanel of downtown street wear.”
But the piece also gets in with the story behind James Jebbia, the brand he launched 18 years ago, and why it hasn’t been completely blown out into big box stores. And those stories are always good.
Desillusion Magazine, the beautifully over-done print magazine (that is everything Monster Children dreams of one day becoming) teamed with with Analog and Alien Workshop to produce This Is Dylan— A 10 minute gaze into the life and time of Dylan Rieder.
At only 24, Dylan’s name is already well engraved in the history of skateboarding, thanks to his style, his personality and his incredible gift; that of skating fast and skating well.The skateboard mag voted him as 2006’s years best am award, but since then he turned pro, came out with an insane part in Mind Field, and has been blowing minds with his steely tricks all across the world. After a rather tormented period, where he tasted the dark side of street life, and where he found himself literally catapulted to the front of the scene, Dylan got back up again, brushed himself off and with incredible maturity, imposed his own style, a style which quickly turned him into an icon for an entire generation of skateboarders.
Jazz piano prodigy Austin Peralta, the son of Bones Brigade co-creator Stacy Peralta, has died according to a story in the LA Times. He turned 22 on October 25, 2012.
Flying Lotus, the beat producer and label head who released Peralta’s music, confirmed the news Thursday morning via Twitter, writing: “it kills me to type that we lost a member of our family, Austin Peralta. I don’t really have the right words right now.” Peralta’s cause of death has not been announced.
Peralta, who released two jazz albums by the time he was 16, was reportedly working on a new album on Brainfeeder. Our thoughts are with Peralta’s family and friends.
For several videos of Austin playing keyboards, follow they jump.
Rob Dyrdek has reportedly sold his home in the Hollywood Hills for $2.125 million according to a story in the LA Times.
